I have a sloped driveway so I got some ramps for the trailer wheels so it could be level so the frig would work and not have to park it in the street. Happens the gray water dump line & valve just barely cleared the ramp when the trailer was empty. Guess what happened when I loaded the trailer for a trip and pulled it off the ramps? Oops.

I have a sloped driveway so I got some ramps for the trailer wheels so it could be level so the frig would work and not have to park it in the street. Happens the gray water dump line & valve just barely cleared the ramp when the trailer was empty. Guess what happened when I loaded the trailer for a trip and pulled it off the ramps? Oops. Attachment 122168

Bummer Doug, I thought I was the only one that fessed up to the oh sh** moments . I'm guessing the ramps where the store bought kind with a short ramp rise. Might want to make up a set of wooden ramps with a longer gradual slope or a set of heavy duty jacks .

Doing dumb things is part of life. Repeating the same dumb things is what's bad. Albert Einstein is broadly credited with exclaiming “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.

Fortunately Doug, Scamp didn't manufacture any of those plumbing parts. They're readily available at just about any RV parts house. You may be back on the road in an hour.

...Albert Einstein is broadly credited with exclaiming “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”....

Kind of like when I look in the mirror every morning and hope that I will be better looking than the day before. Never seems to work.

I do have my own experiences with doing dumb things. I swept the snow off the roof of my Escape a couple winters ago and broke both of the plumbing stack vent caps. Pretty sure that won't happen in the same way again.

"Kind of like when I look in the mirror every morning and hope that I will be better looking than the day before. Never seems to work. " --Dave W (Icebreaker)

I DO look better in the mirror every morning...because my vision is worse!

Don't be stupid:

As a number have pointed out, it's all a matter of perspective...lessons have to be learned, but they can be easy, hard, or in-between.

We learned CHOCKS LAST! when Paul was first going to hook up Peanut by himself. He began to get it ready to be attached to the car by pulling the chocks away. The trailer began rolling toward the house, and we could not stop it. People muscle these things by hand, don't they? Some people? Some eggs? Well, we were helpless to influence the glide.

LUCKILY, we learned this the easy way. Our driveway has a very gentle slope, and Peanut was only a few feet from the house, so it gently touched and stopped. No damage to Peanut or house.

Had we done that in so many other places...

We have never forgotten, this thing ROLLS! NOW, chocks are the first thing down when parking and the last thing up when pulling out.

Don't be stupid--essentially, there are a few aspects to not knowing things. (This happens to be one of my hobbies.)

1. You don't know something. We've all been there and will be again. That's "ignorance." Surprisingly, being ignorant is no shame.

2. You can't learn something. Some learn the easy way...some learn the hard way, and some cannot learn at all. If we had repeated the chocks mistake, that would have been STUPID. If you truly cannot learn, there's no shame to that, either, but it would be helpful if you realized it and admitted it to yourself and others...when appropriate.

There's also willful ignorance and stupidity, but that's a matter of awareness and personal choice. It can "hurt" to learn things, but not learning them can hurt a lot worse, in my humble opinion.
And THERE's the shame. REFUSING to learn, making yourself stupid as a choice.